#flu

'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#appointment #build #congress #factor #friends

I just have a lot off different influences. ↗

— Mose Allison

#i #influences #just #lot #off

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. ↗

— Mose Allison

#armstrong #been #classic #cole #influences

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil. ↗

— Tori Amos

#devil #handle #i #i am #influence

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience. ↗

— David Antin

#colored #develop #differently #experience #family

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#also #bestows #completeness #death #ends

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#been #being #big #big influence #constantly

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#art school #brain #draw #fluent #go

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#because #christian #clear #confront #difficult

I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#always #ear #eyes #i #influenced